Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a top tier AI research conference that attracts people from all over the world, including the leading minds acro

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a top tier AI research conference that attracts people from all over the world, including the leading minds across academia and industry. The main utility many of us get out of it is the in-person interaction with the community -- research ideas are brainstormed, papers are shared and argued, collaborations are developed. Following Trump's immigration policies last year, there was discussion of moving NIPS '17 from Long Beach, CA to Cape Town, South Africa. This year the conference is returning to it's home Montreal; not to mention a lot of AI initiatives are making their way north of the border, unsurprisingly.